More Titanfall > Destiny PvP Stuff I Noticed (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Saturday, December 10, 2016, 17:01 (2694 days ago) @ Kahzgul
edited by Cody Miller, Saturday, December 10, 2016, 17:07

I would like you to look at Vanquish. Vanquish has a 'mana' bar in the form of your suit's temperature. It also functions as a pseudo life bar, in the sense that when your suit is hot your are more vulnerable. Far from slowing down or ruining the combat, it serves the game really well.

Your meter depletes when you:
Dash
Dodge
Enter 'bullet time'
Perform a melee attack

The meter also recharges fairly quickly, on the level of your shields in Halo.

It works tremendously well because each move is very useful and very powerful, but you become more vulnerable when you use them. In particular, your melee attack is extremely effective, but it instantly drains your meter and automatically overheats your suit. So using it is risk / reward. You can use your melee attack, but can no longer dash out of harms way for example, and you are temporarily very weak. If you could use these moves with no limitation, and no downside, then combat would be far less interesting.

'Mana' can rule.